The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP. 102: TSA NIGHTMARES & IRAN WAR

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

This episode of The Okay Podcast goes everywhere — from Marine Corps meetings and deployment stories to college football takes and absolute travel chaos. The guys break down life after command, spring football coaching moves, and the reality of military life, all while mixing in hilarious and unpredictable stories. It’s one of the most wide-ranging, unfiltered conversations yet — exactly what makes this show great.Podcast Hosts:Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and LifterTres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and LifterJoin the Slack and Use code OKAY:https://buy.stripe.com/dR6dT4aDcfuBdyw5ksCheck out BW Tax: https://www.bwtaxllc.comBUY A FOOTBALL HELMET:⁠https://www.thestrength.co/mrhelmet/?utm_source=The+Okay+Podcast&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Okay_PodTimestamps:00:00 - Intro02:57 - Staff Brief18:01 - Going To The Movies Alone24:49 - Grant Lifting Update28:34 - Grant’s Buddy’s Change of Command39:10 - Reserve Corpsmen43:17 - Toxic MRE’s48:43 - College Football Update01:01:45 - Iran Update01:09:13 - Afroman Trial01:11:23 - Gift Gauntlet01:15:33 - Digital Espresso Machines01:22:54 - Overhead Bin Battles01:27:12 - TSA NIGHTMARE EMERGENCY01:29:34 - RIP Chuck Norris01:32:13 - Twins Turn 201:35:43 - Sign Off

All right, and welcome back to episode 102, 10202 for you, four digit types of the OK podcast. Power by the Stranko. I'm your host, Grant Brogi, as the Italian saying. I am in D Italian. Now, we're recording live. I am in South California for those that are uncertain of my whereabouts. I've been in what's not South Jersey and what's not North Jersey. but it's also not central Jersey,

but I'm back in South California. This is episode 102. The price of Bitcoin is $70,891 and 11 cents. I'm joined in studio. We are live on X. You can go watch us there right now. Of course, you can watch it when it comes on on YouTube on Friday morning at 9 a.m.

P.J. Or wherever you get your podcast, I've joined in studio with Mr. Jeff Bouget, Biggie, for you military types. I call him Mr. Jeff because he's in a non-drilling status. That means we can talk about the war in Iran. We can do whatever we want. It's 27 days a year where we have our druthers about any topic.

Although these days it seems like you can have your druthers on any topics regardless of if you're in the service or not. So Mr. Jeff from the greater Salt Lake City area joining us. Also joining us from Minnan, Texas. Minen. M-E-N-O-E-E-N-O-E-E-E-N-O-E-E-E-E-A. in look that up tray put that in your texas geographical geography geographical map

and smoke it okay men in texas that's loving county between nine and 12 residents which means that your family makes up half of the population per capita so per capita men in texas if you were to ask someone what their last name was the odds are high that it's gotlitch um so men in texas mr trey Gottliege Robert, Trey Gottlach your third. We got a lot to talk about today. Today's date is March

to 25th in the year of Our Lord 2026. I don't see a lot of people calling it on teams. I don't see a lot of outlining stations. That's because we usually do this meeting on Tuesdays. But Trashicks decided on Tuesday right before execution to just obliterate everyone's schedules and roll it

to Wednesday. Someone would make the argument we could just skip the meeting. But remember part of the meeting is the meeting itself. And so we're here and we got baseball to talk about opening weekend. We got football coach shuffles to talk about. We got March Madness to talk about. We got war to talk about.

We got Israel to talk about. We got Iran to talk about. We got Alex Jones to talk about. We're just going to pull out all the stops. My buddy is no lawyer or commander. So that's nice. It's like a burden lifted. He's got a lot to talk about.

but before we get into the topics, let me kick it over to the three. All right. Good evening. Good evening, gentlemen. Okay. Before we even get into this, I'm going to hit on one thing. Okay, the Manning document that needs to be completed. ASAP.

We're really struggling on that. So I just want to start things off by setting the tone that the Manning document needs to be complete. It needs to be accurate so we can put forward a good product. Okay, with that said, I'm going to kick it over to the one. What do we got, admin? Yes, you're not trying to be a dead horse here, but working on my T.O. for the manning document. So the main thing I really want to kind of fixate on is, hey, who are all of our trash pickers? You know what I mean? So outside of that, That's basically all I have going on. That's all, everything I'm focused on is just the manning document.

And that's it. Nothing else. Very well. Hey, trash six, real quick. Can we work on the go-no-go roster? I know you're working in the manning document. There's a tab. So there's a manning document, which is what we write orders for.

Tap two is the go-no-go. And I don't want to see any no-goes. Okay, I expect everyone to pick up trash. and all no-go submissions will come through me. If you're light duty, remember, that's a recommendation. Got the M-O down there, giving me dirty looks. She can give me dirty looks all she wants. It's a recommendation for risks that I want to take,

and you bet your sweet Bippy, we're going to be taking some risks. So let's finish up the go-no-go. Commanders, have that to me five minutes after this meeting. All right, thanks, Kara. All right, sir. Okay, take it over to the S2. S2, what do you got? Anything good in the Intel world? Yes, sir. This is Lieutenant Smith. I just checked in.

My predecessor, Lieutenant Johnson, failed out of ATS. ATS. No, that's the artillery training school. He failed out of A&S assessment and selection. So he's actually being redesignated as a comma. But anyway, that's not really relevant. don't know anything that's going on aside from what I see on the White House account on X. And I seem to be the most up to date out of all twos and all of the Marine Corps. A lot of them lock themselves up in a vault and stay on Sipper. I just follow the White House account.

And we are just bombing everything all the time. And I can play some videos if you'd like. I know we're technically in a confidential room. but if you'd let me bring my phone in, I can just open X, and you can actually see everything that's happening. Nothing further for the group. Good brief. Good brief. Okay, it brings it over to ops.

Hey, I know we already touched on this, but I'm going to bring it up again, the Manning document. We've got to get the Manning document complete. If the Manning document isn't complete, then we're incomplete, and we are not going to be able to fulfill our mission of picking up trash. Lieutenant Smith here, I forgot. We also have a manning document for the two shop.

It consists of a go-no-go. And there's six people on my manning document. I put them all as goes. Three of them have not checked into the unit yet. But if they do check in between now and whatever it is that we're talking about, I'm not sure what Manning even means. I thought he was a quarterback from Tennessee. But we will send everyone as a go, sir.

Okay. Noted. Excellent, excellent. Good brief. Good brief. I think you're going to, you had big shoes to fill. Lieutenant Johnson, you know, was a great S2. It seems like you're right on track.

He left his boots in the office. They're actually a size six. Everyone keeps telling me I have big shoes to fill, but they're actually quite small. But thank you, sir. Well, okay. You took it literally. Got it. Okay.

Let's move along to the S4, S4, our log. logotypes or log bubba as they say yeah i don't want to beat a dead horse here with this manning document but uh it's really is it's very fortuitous that i had to as an embarkation officer as well i had to get ready for phasmo and so this go no go list is very important for the embarkation so if we could get that to the six but funnel it through me first so i could take get some eyes on it and then that way i can update for our phasmo in about three years so we'll be ready to Sir, appreciate it. Sir, this is the Ford Chief.

I just want to say, if you're going to send anything for the Manate Document or the Gono or anything that has to do with EDL and what you want to bring to the field, if you want child support, you need trash support, Port of John's. I appreciate you, sir. You do it a good job. But just send that to me, okay, we want to keep down the flat black side. So just send it over to me, and I'll make sure you get the scroby snacks and everything that you need. So just hit me up. You can text me too. You DM me on IG too.

I put it all in the Manor Doc and we'll be good. All right. Thanks, nothing more for the group. Thanks, Chief. Yeah, if you're email to the chief, if you could CC me as well, and then BCC me so that I'd make sure I get it. All right, thank you. That's all right for the group, sir.

Okay, okay, so, yeah, update your CC guidance and your platoon commander's notebooks, okay? If you're sending anything to the four, you're going to CC the four and BCC the four, okay? That way we're covered in the line. Apologies. And if you BCC me on my personal email, that would be very well. Very well, very well.

Excuse me, this is the cyber officer. I'm fairly new in the Marine Corps. I've been around for about two years. Actually, new DOW policy that you can't forward or send emails from a dot mill to a civilian account. So do not BCC the four's personal email or he'll never get it. I realize I'm a second lieutenant and jumping up against the major, but he will not get it. And for the reservists that all now want to take laptops home,

that's too bad. We don't have enough of them. We technically have enough, but they're all set up for FASMO that's coming next year, and I've been told that we can't touch them. And so you guys just figure it out, go to your local base. I mean, if you live in Wyoming, there should be a base somewhere. go there and just log in with your cat card.

Sorry to interrupt, gentlemen. Nothing further for the group. Hey, good gouging. Welcome to the battalion. We have a hail and farewell scheduled for immediately following this meeting. Beers will be served and is encouraged that you partake in them at, well, this meeting is going to end up about. Hey, this trash, 0, 930. Bring your thoughts on Iran.

all right and trash situation over there to the hail and farewell carry on three push yeah I sir I sir okay thank you for medical dental y'all have anything for us yes this is chaps I've heard that I no longer am allowed to wear rank and I must just cover my uniform and crusader crosses if this ends up being the case I want everyone to know that I am indeed in 03 in the Navy. Also, we've had 1,472 counseling this week of a battalion of 700 people, Marines and sailors, if you will. So I would say that people are talking, nothing for the group. Oh, excellent, excellent. Okay, thank you, chaps. Okay, let's kick it over to, let's see, any other staff in the room here?

have one outline station. Oh, are we 999? Are we reserved chaplain? Oh, yes, yes. Let me read this from the reserve chaplain. Chaplain checking in. I want to thank you all for the improved

girding metrics. We received a mandatory girding organization standardization workshop. GOSW will be conducted at 0401 April to discuss proper girding techniques because I've heard some reports of overgirding and unfortunately I did hear about one case of reverse girding. Please message me in the teams for the SharePoint link. I also heard

a lot of jokes about me mentioning that this whole girding situation is a glass ball situation. And listen, I know we are Marines, chaps, I know you're learning, but Marines is always capitalized, okay? Lower case chaps. But let me remind you of what the Bible has to say about course joking. and there must be no filthiness and silly talk or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks for you know with certainty that no immoral or impure person or covetous man who is an idolaturer has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Ephesians 5, 4 and 5, NASB, 1995.

Let's make sure that we are in our A-game this week, Marin. I think he means Marine, once again, not capitalized. Kanye West is more of an Ephesians 4 guy, but I appreciate the Ephesians 5 reference. Thank you, Chaps. Excellent. Excellent stuff from the Chaps, as always. Okay, we got one more outline station from our local 8999, aka the adjusting piece. Ah, former guess.

And we got some words of wisdom from our 8999. Okay. Okay. So we just completed our quarterly uniform inspection. Let's keep it simple. We are not where we need to be. We are trash battalion, not trash Marines. Time to tighten it up.

When Marines look good, they secure trash good. Now the elephant in the room, whoever approved or failed to correct the storyboard photo of five-lands corporal stated in Alpha's all with identical, overly-styled moustaches looking like a 1940s propaganda poster that ain't okay. Staff Enceos, see me after the brief. That's an 89.99 with some figure right there.

First charge is fired up. That's exactly what we need. Moustaches. It's good to go. Alpha. Storyboards. It's got a little storyboard. A lot of good stuff.

A lot of good stuff. Any save rounds? Hey, trash sicks here. Any save rounds, alibis, master guns, Gunner. Sarmaid, you guys got anything.

I appreciate what you do. Trash six out. Don't you know, chairs, flying, coffee cups, spilling. sidebars commencing. Exactly what the commander was hoping would happen when they left the room.

Just what he wanted. I got to say before we leave, get too far from the staff brief, roll Red Diamond 6th. General Gerard, major general type for you civilian types. Remember be my little general, Brigadier Major Lieutenant General.

One, two, three, four stars. So two star type comes in the house. Romeo Company class in 1995. 5L Citadel, did my research, comes in. You know, when a general comes, like a flag goes up, everybody acts weird. They're like polishing the toilets, repainting the parking, you know, signs. You've got 17 people helping him get out of his rental car and walk him inside. And all that's happening.

And he comes in and, you know, he's standing there and I say, yeah, I could more in general. and oh good morning major i said uh romeo bat a romeo company class of 95 he said ah you remember said yeah you once told me nothing good ever came out of delta's company well that's right nothing ever came good out of disneyland uh yeah it's good to have you back you glad to be back and i'm going to talk like i think i talked and then i'll tell you what people said after oh yes sir it's good to be back good to be back with a family really really nice to be back Yeah, no, that's good. Now, you grew up in South Carolina?

Yes, sir. I grew up in Beaufort. My dad's a preacher down there. Oh, what denomination is he? Well, he's non-denomination, but if you put the truth gun to his head, I think he'd say Southern BAPIS. Well, where did he go to seminary, son? He went to Dallas Theological, and then he did his master's, his MDiv at Southern. Whoa, whoa, from Dallas to Southerns.

quite the spread. I know, excuse me, excuse me, General. He went to southeastern. Oh, okay, that makes a little bit more sense. Southing's where my heart is. Well, my brother-in-law was a, as a preacher, was a captain in the Marine Corps.

He went to Southern. Okay, at least part of the family's got it, right? Well, that's good. That's good. It's good to see you. Now, would you say you're more Dallas or Southern? Well, sir, now that I'm, or excuse me, now, well, General, as I'm talking to you, I'd say I'm definitely more Southern. That's a good man right there.

Good man. You did good things out there. We appreciate you. We appreciate you. All right. All right. And so I think nothing of the meeting or of the conversation. I totally hijacked it.

All the lieutenant colonels are standing there looking around, staring at the ceiling as I'm talking about, you know, what you can know about a person based off where they went to seminary. And Italian X-O, I don't think he listens if he does, or some people listen can tell him. Kevin Bosch got a shout out. He finishes Jersey guy, a lot of hand and arm signals, you know, quick talker,

always saying stuff. He goes, what did you just pull a froghorn, leghorn voice out? Like, where did that even come from? You're always over here like talking Italian. All of a sudden you sound like a Charleston aristocrat. I'm like, what? He's like, you just like dropped into the same voice that he was doing. And I said, oh, yeah,

I've been blamed of that a few times. Red dime 6. We have called it Southern Grant, okay? Southern Graham. Yeah. Southern Graham. Yeah. He's a lot of it.

Cod, my gourd. Anyway. What's on the slideshow? Let's see. We do have a lot. We have some good topics here. I'm trying to figure out like a good quick hitter. Do we want to talk sports?

We want to talk. I think we save sports. He's going to want to go down this college football, rabbit hole. You're not like I know a lot now. Okay, I got I got just the one. I got just the one. So Trey posted in there, Project Hail Mary, book first movie, and then kind of a caveat off of their dovetail, more so to speak,

is going to the movies alone. What's your stance on that? So, Trey, did you see the movie? Project Telfare. I did. So I went to go see it. So I don't travel. I did read the book.

movie? Lord of the Kings? Yeah. Lord of the Kings. Right up your alley. Grand... Yeah. You... You actually... You actually... Did you ever see the movie The Martian? No. You know that... Matt Damon. It's good. Matt Damon movie? It's good. Is it like E.T. or something?

No. I feel like you would... You would like it more than E.T. Yeah, for sure. Is it about a moon visit? Like, yeah. No. Not at all. Space? It is space. Are Martians like space related? Yes. I don't necessarily believe we went to the moon.

So if it has to do with the moon landing, I don't know that it's up. Let's table this. Hold on. No. It's good. Matt Damon's part of a mission to Mars, gets stranded on Mars. Talk about the guy from Goodwill hunting. Yes.

Yes. Okay. Continue. And then it's about him like trying to figure out how to get back and kind of of this stuff going along the way. It's actually pretty, I think it's actually really entertained. It's pretty funny at some points, too. I didn't think I was going to like it.

Kind of like that movie where Forrest Gump gets stuck on an island? Yeah. Except space. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it. Track it. Basically, same thing.

Yeah. So, same author. Yeah, so I read the book. Really liked the book. I read it like a couple years ago. Oh, okay. That's a good book. Before it was cool.

Yeah, before it was cool. Went to go see the movie. so I'm traveling this week. And since that's to be away from the family, I'm like, oh, I'm just going to go treat myself. Treat yourself. Treat yourself. Went to go see Project Tail Mary.

I thought it held up pretty good, man. Wait, so Project Tell Mary, all okay jokes aside. Project Hell Mary is like a spinoff of the Martian? So it's the same author. Same author. So like Cornyck McCarthy. Yes. Yeah.

Same guy who wrote The Martian, wrote Project Hell Mary. But yeah, no, man, I thought it was a super good movie. But I think Grant would like, I haven't seen Project Hell Mary yet. We're going to go see it Friday in IMAX. I'm pumped about that. And you've read the book, right? But yeah, I think you would like the Martian more than you would like Project Tail Mary. It's Project Hell Mary a football movie?

Yeah. It's another. It's in spacing it. Oh, yeah. It's got Ryan Gosling in it. So it's a spin-off. I'm a space guy. I remember the Titans.

We're powered by Starlink right now. Big space guy. So Ryan Gosson's character from the member of the Titans ends up going to Juko and then this is about his junior college football experience. Yeah. In space. In space. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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dot com hmm you're your taxes if you're in space yeah yeah he really he probably file an extension but yeah um so would i go to the movie yeah so i don't know is that the question you think it stayed true to the book as much as a could yeah i thought i thought i thought it could but i think you're i think you're to like it if you like the book you'll like the movie and i feel like from reading the book you're like there wasn't like i don't know parts where you're like oh this is just like a bunch of fluff in this book like they'll cut this out um you know and i don't know maybe he wrote it with like a movie deal in mind later on who knows but i feel like it lends itself very well to like a screenplay oh yeah 100 percent but no

The main question was the second half of that is, what's your stance on seeing movies by yourself? I'm all about it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I haven't seen a movie in a theater since 2020. Oh, wow.

I have not seen. So there's that. And I just throw that. I don't say that as like a good thing or a bad thing or a thing I'm proud about, but just to add context. I have not seen a movie in theater since 20, 20 but uh but yeah i'm very pro movie by yourself yeah kitchen six thinks i'm like a sociopath like going to movies but i mean she's not wrong about the first part but i don't think it has anything to

do i don't think that i don't think that's the tvs by yourself yeah no i mean i think it's like in some regards it is like a social aspect but then in other ways you're like yeah everyone's just sitting in the same and just sitting there quietly so it's not like like having a person there next to usually. I think it's a deal break. I think it's more of a, it's more of a guy thing. I think guys will go to see movies about themselves.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm scared to go to a movie by myself because I think I'd like it so much that I'd tell my wife I was going to work and I'd just start going to a matinee every day. Every day from 12 to 3. I'm just watching movies.

You know? No one, I can get a hold of them. So, yeah. One, big fan of movies by myself. Two, Project Tell Mary. good. I think you're going to like it. And that's all I've got to say about that.

Next slide. Next slide. Very well. How about a little lifting update? Ooh. I love that. You got any lifting updates? I can give a little lifting update.

Oh, you give yours. So you got no lifting update. I don't know if the listeners remember, but last week was powered by Sudafed. And this week should be, except I just refused. But I had, let's see, we recorded on Monday. Yeah, we recorded it. That's why it feels like it's been so long because we recorded a day early and now we're recording a day late.

Oh, yeah. That's why I feel like I miss you guys. Trey looks like a different person. But I was sick Monday. And then I took the red eye out Tuesday night, hit Jersey. Yeah, hit Jersey right to technically didn't go to the field Wednesday. but working on go-no-go rosters and manning documents and EDLs feels like I did, didn't hit the gym, was still sick, went to the field, cold, raining the whole time,

come out of the field, Sunday, change of command, flying out Monday because it was just too much to try and get a flight out on time Sunday. So I did. So I worked out basically, not basically, I did. The Friday, prior to the last. episode should have worked Monday was sick and I did not meet my threshold for not lifting the threshold for not lifting should be fever I did have a very severe head cold like it was it was it was intense but I really believe I could have lifted but just due to scheduling I didn't make it usually would

have rolled to a Tuesday didn't red-eyed field some could say working out as walking around with gear on and sleeping for three hours in the rain but I wouldn't so it's Sunday night I go to sleep. My flight's like midday Monday. And I'm like, I can't go another day. So I drift back to Fort Dix. And I went in and I just squatted, squatted with one of my captains. Last time I was seen him for a bit.

So we both squatted. I did five sets of five ascending after the two sets of empty bar. So two sets into bar and five by five ascending. I think I finished at like three, 35. And then we each did like, I don't know, 30 pull-ups or something. I didn't have much time. It's 45 minutes, boom, go to the EWR, TSA, everyone's panicking. I got through in 10 minutes.

We can talk about that later. But I said, I said, so I went a nine-day period without lifting, which is the longest I've had in a really long time. Excuse me. And man, was I sore Tuesday, which just goes back to all my YouTube videos where I say, soreness is about doing a movement that you're not a cuffs and doing. You can lift heavy three days a week. and if you do that consistently, you'll never be sore.

But if you go more than a week without lifting, you'll be super sore. And I didn't even do that much of volume. I could have done 335 for five sets of five, but I just worked up to one top set. But man, was I sore. But a little tidbit. I did the squats and the pull-ups. And then Tuesday I got it and I benched. And then today I got back in the groove, deadlifted, and pressed.

I'll take tomorrow off. I'll run tomorrow and then Friday out. I'll be back in the swing of things. But if you're missing days, I would have been very easily for me in New Jersey to say just change command, got to fly, TSA, blah, blah, blah.

But I was like, nope, got to get in there and get it happening. And I'm glad now that it's, you know, Wednesday night and I'm back on schedule. So that's my lifting update, Tray. Good update. Yeah. All right. I feel like, can we touch on a change of command?

Are you want to dive into that? I'm curious. Yeah, I'm curious how it went, man. Well, do you want to recap the whole weekend? Talk about the field and talk about change command and talk about it.

Let's talk about change command and then go back to the field because I think you were in the field too. Maybe we'll just mix them all up. Yeah, change of command was interesting. So two years to the day. news flash if he got grants buddy was real grants buddy was just me it's my alter ego that was out there two years two years of the day so found out February 3rd 2024 that was in take him in that was my wife's birthday when we found out we were pregnant with isabella March 22nd 3rd 2nd I don't know the days overlap on the weekend of it was a drill the same weekend shocking how things

things repeat themselves, took command. All of 24 March through December spent prepping the unit for activation, which was, you know, Jeff's a battery commander in the reserves. This is the second Tory at Head Corps' Battery Regiment before, and you're always busy. And as the commander, you're the guy that everyone, that always answers his phone, always does things. And that's true in the active component. I would say in the reserve component, it's like there are other people that go back to work. You know, it's like usually you have a gunny or staff and CO or a first sergeant that's like on the ball all the time. And a lot of my staff was on the ball all the time in 2024 as much as they could be. But at the end of the day, when you're activating a unit, it's like you pay the

Piper as the commander. They're calling you. And so 2024, what I would say, it was busier than I thought getting ready to activate. And again, had a lot of great folks help make that possible. But it just felt like I was on the phone every day. And I think it's because I was on the phone every day or on the computer doing marine stuff. January 2, 2025, activate and come off orders December 23rd. A lot there in the middle. 31st Mew deployment, which is just interesting how time, you know, what did our old mentor say, Brian Pagram, who I think we all worked for, worked around. I would say it's all about chance and timing, right? Like guys that do stuff, it's all about chance and timing.

His general thought is that all Marines would do the right thing in a combat situation and a, you know, a crazy situation or rise to the occasion and the people that do the chance and the timing worked out. And so it's interesting, you know, last year when we were running Operation Midnight Hammer, we're at sea with the 7th Fleet and they're like, nope, we might switch you to the 5th Fleet. it was like a quick thing. Then we went and bombed Iran and destroyed all their nuclear stuff, which we're going back after it again.

So I don't know if we destroyed it and they made it that fast or how that works. But that's a cop topic for another day. But now the same you, same ship, same people that I put one in the old vice with in Okinawa, Japan, you know, have been steaming towards the Middle East. So, you know, missed it by that much. So anyway, finished appointment deactivated December 23rd. and then I've been in sort of like a reintegration back into the SMCR, and I've been drilling quite a lot in February and March.

And what I would say is I don't know, I don't even know that it has hit me yet, but I would say that when, you know, a lot of the guys that I deploy with with the first team, we're in their T-shirt tonight, 1-7, you know, they're on a border mission now, so they got right back to work. but there was definitely like a closure to the deployment, like boop onto the next thing.

And I don't feel like I had been onto the next thing. It was like closing out, you know, administrative taskers, Marines that deployed with Godfather battery that came from other units, you name it. And it's just been like nonstop. And oh, by the way, you get home and you're like, I should hang out with my wife. I want to get to know my daughter.

I have a bunch of businesses that need a lot of effort. And so it's just been kind of nonstop. And so I've kind of had this date in my head for a long time. And it finally came and occurred. And the change of command in terms of pomp and circumstance, I mean, you guys know it as well. But it's, hey, new commander comes. There's like a little ceremony. There's formation of troops.

The XO says, you know, first order to deliver the guide on to the battery commander. A script is read of the passing of, you know, the guideon symbolizes the, the relief of all, you know, duties and responsibilities by the outgoing and the assumption by the new guy. So we did that Sunday at 2 p.m. and it is, there is some kind of feeling when you're like holding the stick and there's like cues to the words and, you know, there's a certain word and boom, you stick to stick out and the guy grabs it and you let it go. And there's a lot of like relief. And then there's there's a lot of like, hey, you know, you pour your heart and soul on something for two years. You're like, man, that's, you know, it's over. So yeah, well, I was

fortunate Master Gunn Shepard came out, which was good to see to have the support. Shoney, one more, Billy Martin, I Can Drive character, former guest of the podcast, Dave Denobio or Tola. I should have a lot of credit that I pronounce that correctly, who was lieutenant with all three of us. Loos in South Philly. Yeah, great, dude. Good, dude. He came out.

Andrew Iboos. Also, lieutenant with all of us, flew in from Kentucky. What a guy. My battery gunny who's now a master art. The field artillery shoot for 311 came out for it. I wish the family could have come, but it's like you're shooting beforehand. So it's like, what's my family going to do? Like sit in a hotel room in Jersey for four days, you know, waiting for this thing to

happen or the alternative like fly across the country by themselves but yeah it was it was a good event um i mean it went well no longer in command so you know happened trey well that's good man yeah no i was wondering if it was just like a huge relief lifted off but i don't know i imagine it's a mixed emotion kind of thing yeah i think it's i think it's mixed i think there is a a huge relief i think i'm also like i'm done but i'm not quite done there's a lot of like ad man evaluations and stuff that like I'm cranking this week and I'm trying to like crank I'm really hard. What I will tell you that I have felt thus far for the first time since coming back from Okinawa, I have not had like a flight for drill in my calendar. And in the last

eight weeks, it's every time I get back, it's like nine days from now you're flying back in New Jersey. And then you get back and it's like 11 days from now you're flying back New Jersey. And so that I actually have like felt like coming back like, oh, I do not have to fly back to New Jersey and nothing against New Jersey. It's just like, but that's like kind of like takes like a mental toll, right? Like I got this like next thing to go back. So I felt that. I also did feel I had a lieutenant. She checked in right before we deployed and then she went on a different deployment. And she came back. Changing command happens. There's like a little. little gift exchange and the little fiddler's green that we have. We call it Johnny Sacks.

And we're in there. And we come out of there. And the lieutenant comes up. It's like, hey, sir, I sent you the storyboard and the drill summary. I think they're all complete for submission. I was like, wrong guy. Wrong guy. Don't send it to me. So that was funny. But yeah, all done. Long two years. Great two years long, yeah. Congratulations. Congratulations. Great, great command tour.

Told the guy of people on the old vice when I handed to him. Yeah, no, I think it's like the, and I'll leave it with this. Then we can go into other stuff. I think, thought about a little bit. I think I'll think about it more like next week. I think when I close out, I'm really trying hard to close out everything. And there's always more, right? There's always there's the Marines.

There's people that you deal with that need help. And there's all that kind of stuff. But I did think about, you know, know, and I think you guys will both relate to this. Like as an artillery officer, there's a bunch of cool stuff you can do. You can go to Anglico's, Jeff's done in the past. You know, you go to High Mars, like, you know, Tray or all of us to the beginning. You can do it.

You can do a lot of stuff. You can be the S4 alpha or the S4. There's a lot of stuff that you can do. But, I mean, like, in my mind, and maybe I'm just too belt fed, but like the pinnacle. is like being the battery on a BLT because that's like the doctrine that like you're taught all the time, right? Like the artillery battery supports the infantry battalion. So like doing it on a BLT.

And so getting to that was cool and then realizing like the odds of getting to do that as a reservist and activate are very slim. So yeah, I think the opportunity to do that and to do it was definitely. really cool and not to take away from anything else. But yeah, I'm glad it was I'm glad it was what it was. But I'm no longer Godfather 6. Someone else have it. I'm just a guy.

I'm just a guy that sells plates and you know, that's what it is. All right, push. That's enough for that. Yeah, enough of that. Shut up. All right. Well, taking on there's old Marines slash young Marines is one of the topics.

put in there? Grant? Oh, yeah. I don't know. Okay. Hey, Bobby, I was high when I said. Okay. All right. Move, we'll push. We'll push to the next slide. And I, sorry, like, we'll get, I'll get Grant's take on this. You may have thoughts, Tray, but I don't know, but reserve. But I don't care. So, and there's like, to me, that should be an active duty job always. ways.

Like, we get, so, Trey, all the corpsmen that come out to the field with us, like there are some on the active duty staff, but it's like the chief and whatever. So, but like all your like, you know, line corpsmen that go with the batteries or whatever are all reservists. And like, so far I've only worked with one that actually had like a medical, like civilian job and was like an ER nurse.

She was awesome. tons of experience. But so far all the other ones have something that has nothing to do with medicine. And there's a standing, like I have a standing or I have like, people who I was like, if anything ever happens to me, do not send the corpsmen. Send me,

send me one of our staff sergeants that's a EMT or like a paramedic firefighter on the civilian side. I'm like, send him. Don't even tell the corpsman. Like they're going to be asleep. Don't, don't contact them.

Don't wake them up. Like, know, leave them alone. So Reserve Corpsmen are interesting. Yeah, I guess I could go, I could jump on that bad bandwagon. But if I were to put like my active duty hat on, I feel like active duty Marines could say the same thing about us, right? Like, I don't want the guy that squats for a living shooting my artillery, right? And it's like, well, but no, I hear what you're saying.

And Reserve Corpsmen are interesting. Man, the Navy does it right. The guys that I took on deployment were Reserve Corman. They still haven't had to come back yet. They get like six months. Like they don't have to do anything. So yeah, we had, we had our Reserve Corman was new, checked in while we were gone. And it was interesting.

I gave us some shoutouts to my lieutenant. so they're doing the old EDL manning document scrub and they're trying to get the weapon numbers to bump you know, you're bumping numbers. Classic. Story is all the time. And he says, well, I know that Corman has a rifle because she checked it out and then locked it up in her locker

and said, well, I don't bring a weapon to the field. So I'm just going to put it in my locker. And the lieutenant was like, not the place to leave the weapon grab that thing uh so yeah that's what they call him corpus to the field i want to caveat that you said reserve corpsmen are interesting i feel like that's just a blanket statement for corman any corvette period yeah yeah very true very true i don't know i've had some great ones but yeah i have to yeah man like i had some too but they're all just a little bit

a little off. Yeah. Yeah. Corman, Reserve Corman, if you're listening. Mom, if you've become a Corman, we love you. We do. We appreciate you. We do. I think they're great. And if Jeff's staff sergeant EMT is hurt,

call the Corman. No, just let me die. Let me die. I didn't remember watching one of them trying to give an IB one time and being like, ooh, I feel like, I could just insert my own ivy right now. Just saying,

we had a Marine, like, literally just, like, skin his knee. And the corps minimum was like, we're going to take a better look at this wound and, like, cut his whole, like, pants up. And it was like, Doc. Like, no. I've got those scissors issued to him.

He's been wanting to use his whole career. He's got real, real scissor happy. So yeah, yeah. Corman, we love them. We do love them. We do love them. Granted, do you eat any toxic MREs out there? Oh, man. Not many.

We went out Thursday morning. I think I ate two MREs. I brought, it's funny. Before I saw. Total or just that morning? Total. I could eat 12 if I needed to. Someone had told me about the MRE debacle.

I posted on the OK podcast. today, Instagram, if you don't follow, go follow. But I hadn't like read into it yet. I think we mentioned it briefly the last episode. But I always bring what I call officer gummy bears, which are the Albanese, the white bag gummy bears. And they're softer. Enlisted gummy bears are Harbio.

Those are enlisted gummy bears. They're hard to chew. They like build mental toughness. They're not very good. and I think they provide no nutritional value and enlisted Marines love that. And I didn't make this, I didn't make this rule. Mass. Arndar in the United States Marine Corps made it for me 10 years ago.

White bag gummy bears or officer gummy bears, Harbiot gummy bears, the gold bag or enlisted gummy bears. But I bring a bag of officer gummy bears and what I call meat sticks. You know, those like, it's not beef jerky. It's like meat and stick. Yeah, the sticks of meat. Yeah, sticks of meat. And you go to the PX, it must be because the straight-ohermuz and it's like 1299 for like nine sticks.

And you're like, this is ridiculous. So I bring those. And so I just eat gummy bears, meat sticks, and coffee. And somehow I feel like that's healthier than needing an MRI. And based off of recent research, I think I'm right. But I ate a beef ravioli. And I ate a. Mexican-style burrito bowl.

Not to be confused with just a burrito bowl. Mexican-style. Which is a bad one because there's so much rice in it, you have to heat it for like six hours in order for it not to just be really hard. But yeah, did you eat any? I had, I think, maybe had like three.

The whole time. It was, I did the pizza slice, whatever the cheese. cheat like which is I I grabbed that one because I was like oh I don't have to heat this thing up this is easy like just like push and chow real quick that's an Italian that's an Italian sin I mean yeah I just needed to get some some food in me uh food is a debatable term right I crushed a chili mac at like three in the morning uh or like first night out there I was like oh shit I haven't eaten in like a long

time. I really want to take a quick nap, but I need to eat this MRI first. So I devoured that thing. And then I think I had a chili with beans at some point mixed in there. I spread that one over like a course of a day, I think. I do like the naming convention of that chili with beans, which like shows that the MRE makers know that chili's not supposed to have beans. So it's like chili with beans. And it's like, oh, you guys understand what chili is. I did miss Southern California field apps. It was 36 degrees in raining. And I was like, man, Jeff's like on Roblo Road right now or the coastals.

He was hot. Just like, yeah. It was like 95. Oh, that's not good. That's not good. It was hot. I had to use my tarp and my field craft and like make an A frame, which was like cool until you go to get in it. And of course, I wanted to put my cot in the A-frame. So I found like a ditch,

set up the A-frame. And then you get in, you want to like take your boots off, but then you would like put your socks or your boots like critters don't come in them. And you have like a whole routine. Man, it must have taken me 25 minutes to like slide down that thing. Like my face is like six, three inches from like the top of the tarp. It's raining. And by the time I like got in the bag with all my layers and had like my socks for the next day and my cammy's down by my feet. I was in a full sweat.

And I was like, great, glad I went through all this work for three hours of sleep. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like, God, there's me. Honestly, I would. There's just hoping for some fire support. Yeah. Yeah, no, I would take, I would take

hot over cold and rainy every day of the week. For sure. Yeah, I think so. It's up extreme heat. Okay. Trey, are you in field conditions for your work trip right now? Yeah. Man, Texas, are you?

What's the Loon out right now? Is it good for night driving, for blackout driving? Do you have your MVP mount? Yeah, no, I'll account for it. Yeah. Okay, good. Good. Don't forget, don't forget doing an EDR check for you to bed.

Yeah. Okay. Well, I feel like we've done a lot of talking about. where Trey hasn't has much. Do we want to do sports? We wanted to get into this college football deal. So, let's get into it. Cool us up.

Should we start the show? Yeah, let's start the show. Oh, let's start it. I haven't. You act like I know a lot about college football. The last two seasons. What, you know, the things going on in your life, huh? One.

Well, that, yeah, well, that's true. They'd be South Carolina, right? And Auburn this fashion. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. As we get in the sports talk, let me remind you that today's podcast is brought to you by green, gridiron,

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the link below. We need those link clicks because Mr. Helmut helps keep the lights on. Thank you, Mr. Helmut. All right. And so spring ball. And now it's time for trades the week. I don't know how I do that. That's a good one. It's a guy that's not a commander anymore right there. Good one. Hot air in there. Yeah. Well, Trey. Lane Kiffin, best hire.

Yeah, so what's the question I posed? What was the best, it was like all the new coaches, right? Springball talk. What new head coach do you think is the best hire? Lane Kiffin, LSU, John Summerall, Florida, Alex Golish, Auburn, Auburn, Auburn, Auburn, Auburn. Beard, Auburn, Beard, Golding, Oleham. Auburn. Pat Fitzgerald, Michigan State.

Will Stein, Kentucky, Tosh, Newpoie, I don't know how you say that. Sounds foreign. Sure, Cal. Tavita Pritchard, Stanford. Is that a woman? Bob Chesney, UCLA.

Matt Campbell, Penn State, James Franklin, Virginia Tech, Eric Morris, Oklahoma State, and Ryan, Silverfield. old Arkansas. Okay, first let me just do Grant being dumb.

The only names I've heard of are Lane Kiffin, Alex Golish, Pats Fitzgerald, James Franklin. You've heard of Penn State's coach. Matt Campbell? Matt Campbell? I don't know what I have.

He was the old Iowa State coach. Iowa or Ohio? The Ohio State. Oh, Iowa. No, Iowa. The Iowa State. The Iowa State. Yeah, I have no idea.

Lane Kiffin. That's your, that's a huge pig. That's you think. Here's what I know about college football right now. Michigan has hired a bunch of new front office folks, recruiting folks, all women, all attractive. And they've been posting like, newest hire. you know, recruiting admin director, Kelsey, whoever.

And it's like a 25-year-old blonde, you know, with Michigan logos behind her head. And everyone's just retweeting saying, thank God and the Michigan coach is gone. And that's kind of what my feed is in terms of college football. That and mean Aggie memes, but that's just always there. Well, yeah, that's car for the course. I guess the Michigan coach wasn't on there too the old Utah coach Oh yeah

Kyle Winningham Kyle Winningham I guess you could throw him in there as well Throw him in there So Grant thinks LSU got the best deal I have no idea I definitely had the most publicity

I believe in marketing Had a lot of noise yeah No for sure Yeah I would lean who I think is going to kind of best situation. I think Virginia Tech hiring James Franklin.

I think that's, yeah, good hire for him. I think he'll end up because one, I think the league is easier. The dude and the dude can just like flat out like recruit kids to come play for him. So I don't know. I feel like he's going to do very well there. Who is the coach that said this week

never asked me about recruiting. Just look at my wife. Do you see that? I saw that. Yeah. Yeah. Who was? It's some small school.

Talked recruiting. Great quote. said, look at his wife. If you ever want to question my questions about, if you ever want to question my recruiting abilities, just look at my wife, new providence. I love it. such a

Boston quote she's a pretty lady yeah it looks like he's good at recruiting mainly because of the way he looks I was like good for you man yeah he kind of looks like a goblin yeah but like a nice goblin you know like a like a tall

Frodo Baggins yeah Frodo the goblin yeah same same right in my mind is the same yeah same that's basically Same. No, I think James Franklin is the big one. And then I think that Penn State, I think Matt Campbell is like a really good coach.

Matt Campbell. You don't think the, I mean, at Iowa State, like, kind of, the pressure isn't as much, isn't on as much. The bar is a little lower in terms of like what a successful season looks like. Do you think you'll be able to, do you think this new amplified pressure cooker? Oh, Matt Campbell's from the University of Toledo. Shout out Troy Campbell, Senior. Hey. Oh, look at that.

Big Toledo guy. Could be related. No, I think you'll do well because he. Oh, I didn't even think of that. Yeah, it could be. Sorry, go ahead, Troy. They didn't have any resources that Iowa State. True.

Compared to, like, Penn State. So I feel like, I think he'll do well. Very well. South Carolina fired their baseball coach Oh It was much needed Before the season started Oh he's terrible

And they already started winning As soon as they fired them I was like Four games in Three games Yeah just fired the Just fired the coach South Carolina men sports

Has like the worst record Combined I think of any division one team Thank God for Don Staley praying the school some respect. I did see a funny meme today. It was Don Staley's like out in front of somewhere on campus and she's like giving directions for some kid to parallel park.

And it was like Don Staley could literally coach anything. Make her the baseball coach. They just made the Sweet 16 for the 12th year in a row. Say what you want about women's sports. But I like winning. I like winning. Spring ball. Spring games are like next.

week? I think they're coming up soon. Sounds right. Okay. We've got an opening weekend of MLB this weekend, right? Is it the first game tomorrow or is it today? I thought today's in Giants. Um, our daughters are our daughters supposed to win again? It was today. 8.05 Eastern time. I'm going, I'm going Saturday, Padres Tigers at Petco Park. Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah, 538 p.m. first pitch. Nice. I don't know. I feel like it's just, are we just going to watch the Dodgers win again this year?

No. Dodgers suck. Maybe. Oh, they got a pretty good team. Probably. Rangers. Rangers did pretty good in the preseason. I don't know if that means anything.

It should bring George W. Bush back. To the Rangers? Yeah, we got a war in the Middle East. It's baseball season. We need George W. Bush. you know. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Nolan Ryan. Bring that guy's arm back. I think he was a manager for a minute. Solid couple of innings. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. All right. Is there any other? Oh, Jeff. Who'd you pick as a coach? I mean, you know, I'm going to say, I'm going to say Alex Golish. Auburn.

Going to win the national championship next year. Auburn, Auburn. Established 1856, ro. I don't know. It's tough. I was like, how's a great know that? I'm like, oh, Jeff's hat. Nah, I just know that.

He's just big sports after the Civil War, you know? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I think it's tough to say. I think, I hope he does well. I'm going with Alex Golish. Yeah. Yeah.

He's Ukrainian, right? I think so. Yeah, they know how to fight, man. He's rushing, my bad. They also know how to fight. Same, same. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure he'll be great.

We'll see, though. We'll see. I would hire Alex Jones as my football coach. That guy can see the future. Watched a bit the other day. And when I said the other day, I mean last night, I'm sorry, I'm going here, but I'm going here. I'm no lawyer.

I'm no lawyer commander. And he's like, he's on Joe Rogan. It's at least 10 years old. And he's like, there's, they're going to take the computers. And the computers are going to listen to everything that you say all the time. And they're going to take all the feedback that you do. And they're going to put it into artificial intelligence. And they're going to take all the information of all the Americans.

And they're going to feed it into these robots. And these robots are going to be able to talk to you. And people are going to be talking. to the robots, asking questions about life, about what they should do, and the AI is going to answer it all. And then what they're going to do is they're going to program it to make you think things are true that are not true. And you're going to see things, you're going to see videos that you're going to think are real and they're not real, but you're going to feed the system for years. And then it's all going to come out and you're going to realize that the robots

are controlling everything and they're talking to you. And any question you have about life, love, Slack, lifting, you're going to just ask the robots. When I was watching, I was like, oh my gosh,

he like total predicted Grant bot. He nailed it. Close my eyes there for a second. I thought it was Alex Jones. I mean, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. It's either Rip or Alex Jones, yeah.

Yeah. All right. Okay. Yeah. Uh, I don't know, Grant. Uh,

Seems Ron Paul's just right about everything When are you coming back to Texas I'd love a conversation between Alex Jones And Mark Ripato I would pay money to see you guys to sit in on that Oh I love it I love it

Well okay Kind of along the lines of sports talk unless we had more college football we need to talk. Nah, push. Literally like one of the wildest headlines. Oh, I saw the story.

Quadruple amputee cornhole player fatally shoots man. It's like, hold on, this is real? The best part about it is they find a video from like two years ago where the guy's showing how he can like load and shoot a Sig Sauer

with like, look ma no hands. And my gosh, poor defense attorney. Like my whole game, I thought I had the easiest defense in the world. And now this video surfaces. Uh-oh. Oh, man. Yeah, that's wild.

Wild headline. Sounds like he did it. Did he shoot him like at a cornhole game? We didn't click the link. You just read the headline and move on. the headline. That's crazy. We obliterated Iran's nuclear storages. Move on. Wait, why are two

Muse in Iran? VTs did that too. Yeah. Yeah. What do you guys think? You see the 11th Mew pushed out there? I did see that. I think I also see something that Trump posted last night that like, ah, the war's over.

Yeah, it's like every day. Trump's like the war's over. Secretary of War's like got a hand of the throttle. I don't know. I do know that we need the straight to open up because for the average listener, oil soaring is not good for the price of your cast iron. Okay?

It's not good for a lot of things. I'm just giving you that because I'm a purveyor of cast iron. You might sell hoses for a living. It's great for the hose industry. When trucking goes up, whoo. Yeah, I don't know. You think it's ending soon, Jeff?

Second and third. I hope so, man. I don't do what's going to happen? I don't know anymore. I am now out of the prediction game because it seems like anything and everything is possible all the time. Sounds like you just need to go to school. Learn something about advanced warfare. Yeah.

I hope it's over soon. We'll see. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. It's an interesting. it's an interesting time. Well, I'm wondering. Are we going to get a star on our

Armed Forces Defense? What's the Ketchman mustard one? National defense? National defense, that's it. Oh, yeah, do we get a star on that? I mean, are we going to get a star? So are people getting that again?

I don't know. I don't know. That's a great question. Yeah. I don't know what the official triggering for that is. Or not war. I saw a great, I did see a great battle on B today. It said Trump issues crocs to all service members so that he can claim there's no boots on the ground. Love it. Love it. Love it.

That's so good. Yeah, hot topic in the gym. Turns out when people barbell train uh yeah she's not about barbell trainees that seem to care about the world's events in the future so there's been in the gym coaching a little bit

been there lifting with folks lifting with the lady today and never met her before she'd been lifting with some of the coaches she just mixed mixed classes she goes to coaches and goes to open gym if you live in orange county California go to jims.

go to gms.m.the strength. Go check at our website. You can join the gym. You can come in and live in a private space with like-minded folks or you can go to coaching and stuff if you want. Anyway, I'm in there lifting.

A long-time listener, big fan of the show, Ray's in there. This lady's in there. I don't want to guess what her age is because I'd be doomed. I actually asked her. I said well, I'll do it sequential order. I said, she said, I'm in the, walking in the gym, gym's already open,

and I can tell someone's in the bathroom and I see some things out. She comes out and she says, oh, hello. I said, hi. And she said, you know, my name's whatever. I said, oh, nice to meet you. My name's Grant. She said, oh, you're here for open gym? I said, yeah, I'm here for open gym. She's like, oh, great. And I said, how long you've been coming? So I've been coming about three months. you know, I was training online for a little bit, and now I come in, I'm moving to the area, I'm going to start coming three times a week. I said, oh, great, who's your coach, this,

Adam, what have you? And she said, well, how long have you been coming? I said, well, I think I've been coming since we opened. And she says, oh, wow, you like you that much. I said, well, yeah, I opened the place. And she goes, oh, you're the owner. I see, yeah, I'm the owner. So she's squatting, and, you know,

I'm giving her some techniques. Ray comes in, we're all lifting. And, you know, there's just normal. normal banter. We're talking Iran. We're talking fly fishing. She's talking. She's a geologist. You know, she's talking about rocks and sand. And at some point, he asked me something about the podcast. She's like, you have a podcast. And I said, yes, she said, oh, what's the name of the podcast? Said, oh, the okay podcast. She's, oh, well, what's the okay podcast? And I think Ray just burst out in the laughter. And she's like, oh, is it like funny? And I said, well, I don't really.

Yeah, not really. I said, it's just like a podcast. I said, you know, like for my business, we make a lot of videos about lifting. And so the idea was like talk about lifting and then also talk about other things for people to, you know, maybe widen the audience. And so we talk about sports and raise like chow we're like chow uh military stuff and she goes yeah doesn't sound very interesting to me and i see yeah yeah no that that checks out when you talk a little bit of lifting though um and then she's like did you serve an iraq and i just thought it was like a classic boomer question like oh you're in the marine corps did you serve in iraq and i'm like no no didn't i i i served in afghanistan actually and

And last year I was deployed in the South Pacific. And she says, oh, okay, because I was in Iraq doing geology work from 01 to 06. Wow. And I'm like, whoa, let me unpack that a little bit. But potential guest, potential guests. Yeah, hell yeah. Geology. Let's talk about some rocks.

She's actually more of a sand person. Ooh. That's the sand over there in Iraq. Yeah, a lot of sand. A lot of sand. More of a sand person. Yeah, more of sand person. Just tiny rocks.

What do we got for save rounds, Alabama? He says a guy that previously worked in concrete, I can tell you, it's really just tiny rocks. Tiny rocks. Afro-man trial. I feel like this. Oh, man. Did you guys follow that? Got to cover.

Only from when you post. posted like that song that he put up. Afro man is going to screw you. It's so funny. It'll stick it to you. Yeah, I wish I could sing more about my mother listens. Everyone knows there's a couple famous Afro-Man songs. I'll let me know what their years are from, Colt 45, famous show in South Carolina.

And then I got high. And that's where I think his list ends. unless I'm missing a banger by after man. But the cops went into his house over some dumb charges, ate his lemon pound cake, broke his door down.

And for two years, he made songs about the cops. And he's actually like, I'm pro cop, but he's like in the right. Like they literally went into his house and ate his cake. And so he just made songs about it

that are like extremely funny and not PG. but he took it to court and won his case and he wore an American flag suit with American flag sunglasses and now he says he's running for president on free speech guns and weed and they suit him for defamation right? Yeah, they sued him for defamation.

So then he just like ramped it up even more. I mean, greatest comeback for a rapper. Dude, love it. Like he's relevant again. But yeah, if you haven't, oh man. If you're on ax and tired of seeing us bomb, I ran, just type an afro-man. And yeah, you'll have a, you'll have a good laugh.

Good laugh for sure. Okay, I think two, two, maybe three, one to be super quick. But a couple save rounds. What's the gift gauntlet? Oh, oh, I didn't even, okay. So I'm in the midst of it right now. Now, okay. Okay.

It's basically Christmas through April is the gift gauntlet. So I got to get Kaylee a Christmas present. And then February, you roll into Valentine's Day. So you got to get a present there. March, it's her birthday. Got to get a present there. April, our anniversary. So it's just like I'm in the midst of the gift gauntlet.

April 7th, right? April 8th. I just remember when I flew in. Hey, there you go. Sounds expensive. So are you asking for advice? Well, no, I think I just wanted to let people know it's a thing. I'm in the middle of it.

I'm going through it. Just, yeah, thoughts of verse for Jeff. This one will be our third anniversary. So, like, traditionally speaking, that's the leather anniversary. Kail doesn't listen to this podcast. So I'm going to probably get her a leather, like, lifting belt. She has this like a, you know, like the, I know a good place to buy one.

So yeah, and I think I know a guy. We could put her name on it. We can do a lot of things. We could make pink. So I was doing what you want. So yeah. Gift gauntlet. I thought the gift gauntlet was going to be

in regards to Marines leaving units and how we just keep handing people big chunks of wood. I thought in my mind. You send you off right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They sent me off right.

But I just mean in general, like I left, the XO left, the first sergeant left. Oh, dang. Like a bunch of people were leaving. There's like, you get the XO, like a pizza stone and great because he likes to make pizza. We got the first sergeant like a decanter. Yeah, I mean, I think the CEO is always the easiest, right? Right on. Yeah, I mean, that's, it's like.

and I think when you leave with it, you're just like, oh, that's like the only thing I've cared about all this time. It's like all I need. I just like, nope, don't need to put any personality anything. Like, here's the guide on. Like, that's it. But I think everyone else is a little bit more interesting. But yeah, I thought that's where the conversation was going. I didn't realize you were in the middle of a wife gift gauntlet. Just stop celebrating, stop celebrating Valentine's Day. stop celebrating your anniversary, stop celebrating Christmas, and just get it down to her birthday.

Okay, okay. What's my advice? Yeah. I think she would almost be, well, I don't think she cares that much about Valentine's Day. But she'd probably almost reverse that

and be like, don't care about birthday, care about, cares about Christmas. Yeah, Christmas. We're working on it. Jesus was pretty important. Trey, don't mess up Mother's Day

coming up in May. Oh yeah, I got that on lock. Yeah, don't mess that up. I got Abby a picture last year of the girls, and now I just get a new one, an updated one. Yeah, I got Dee a book last year with like photos of her and the baby, and then I needed to re-up my starting strength cert.

And of course, starting strength has their seminar Mother's Day weekend. So I was like, so I could just like fly there Friday and I'll just fly back Sunday and it will celebrate Mother's Day on Monday, right? And then I was like, you're going to miss Mother's Day again? I was like, nope, literally just a question and I'm not. I'll be here. Can't wait. A joke question.

I wish I had. That was just to be funny, you know, the OK podcast. It's funny. Yeah. So don't miss Mother's Day, Tray. You ready. Good trip. Stay ready and got to get ready.

Hell yeah. Can we do a little coffee talk? Yeah, send it. Because you're talking gifts. I got D for our anniversary while I was gone. Brevelle? A Brevelle touch. She wanted an espresso machine,

and I thought this pays dividends in the long run, because Starbucks and local coffee shops are expensive. So we got a Preveld Touch. I'm a FedEx guy. We ship your plates, FedEx. So I got a lot of FedEx points. I bought it through FedEx, which is a weird place to buy an espresso machine.

I wanted complete analog. I wanted, yeah, it's weird. I mean, it's not even worth going into. But yeah, there's a lot of FedEx points. A lot of people ship FedEx. And so I wanted to go complete analog, but I was like picturing. Okinawa, getting ready to get on ship, and I'm picturing like my wife holding at the time,

you know, nine month old, two cats asking for food. And I'm like, she's not going to want to learn like nine bars of pressure, all that stuff. So I got the Preveld Touch. Nice machine. Nice machine. A lot of the points. But I think if you were by it, I think it's like 700 bucks, something like that like it's you know it's it's not nothing uh and and and and espresso machines can go crazy right you spend five grand so the machine comes and i'm gone and d does a ton of research on it she's got the scale the whole thing doing the whole whole bit and uh she's got it all dialed in since i've come back i've been drinking flat whites and she's got it all dialed in for me and she's like nope you can't use that bean you have to use this bean if you're going to switch beans

we don't let change it to this and she's now the appearance of the opinion of like, oh, like she wishes we were complete analog because she's like really into all the stuff. Yeah. But then I got on this rabbit hole because we talk about a lot. And it's like really fun in the morning. I generally get up with Isabella. Wife still asleep.

I put her on the counter. There's like the grind process. Baby likes like watching the buttons and the thing line up. It's like a whole bit. And then Isabella like takes whiffs the coffee after you make it. But I've posted it a couple times on X. If you don't know this, if you want to see what I'm doing, I'm much more of an ex guy, post a lot of an ex.

A lot of people are like digital, you know, electronic. We used to be a proper frigging country. And it's still a good unit. But then I got started getting hit with these ads of like this part of your Bravel touch is plastic. It could be stainless steel. This is your, this is your shower. what do they call it, shower diffuser, like where the coffee comes out.

Like, this is made of this. It should be made of this and spread the water like this. And so I keep buying like $40 attachments. And I'm like single hand. Just had a new machine? Yeah, like rebuilding the whole thing. Yeah. So that's what I've been up to.

And it's been really fun, actually. It's been really grace. Nice. Yeah. And I'm enjoying my flat whites and coffee. Coffee arts really hard. I like it. Respect the blue-haired liberals.

Like, you guys know how to do it. I think I'm too conservative to do latte art. I'm trying. I'm trying. You see, I got one of those, I guess, chow adjacent. That wasn't chow, that was coffee. No, for me, this is. I got an ice maker, but it's like sonic ice.

Ooh. It did. Game changer. So I got to say something that I think I may be judged for my wife by Chick-fil-A ice. Good eyes. Really good ice.

So I don't even have an opinion on ice, but I'll open the freezer and there's like a bag of chick-flay ice. I literally yesterday I said, where does one even get Chick-fil-A ice? And she looked at me like I was retarded and said, Chick-fil-A.

And I was like, oh like you literally go to chick-fil-a and she's like where else would I buy chick-fil-ice I'm like well now that that you say it like that it makes sense but I mean I know you could go there and buy a five-pound bag yeah I didn't know idea I mean it makes like they that that is great ice yeah really good I prefer Sonic ice personally I'm a Sonic loyalist my sister yeah Maureen I grew up with her on skates at Sonic me and my brother would go there to Chevy 10, pull up, listen to Jimmy World. I'd get a

diet cherry limeade extra large and a supersonic cheese burger ad halipinos. Man, that takes me back. Sonic's not like it used to be. They don't put them on skates anymore. You know, we used to be a proper country. Liabilities. No, but yeah, that ice machines

game changer. Ooh. Is it a... I'm going to need a link. External thing? Or is it like a thing you can... Yeah, it can. countertop no it's countertop hey man i'll send you a good piece of

counters countertops countertop space is like it's so the twin like all the kids are off formula you only have three yeah under two so they're all just drinking milk now so a lot of counter space opened up so it's open real estate i'm like we got to fill it up yeah have to yeah it's getting a crock pot an air fryer some ice maker an espresso machine. Just making whipped in ice tea. You got to make that in the sun, brother.

Because we're from the South. Texas. Texas. The geologist is from Texas. Oh. Good girl. I probably know her. Where in Texas?

Dallas area. Dallas area. Oh, is that old Sandy? the geologist funny Susie oh Susie

we call you call her Sandy because she's sitting the sand yeah yeah yeah she's more of Susie she's more of sand gal yeah Texas

yeah I always try when I'm lifting with the gym member that I don't know my my go-to comment to see if I can be myself is

so you born and race California And if the answer is yes, I'm like, remember everything your mother taught you about being all things to all men and being good and not offending people. And if the answer's no, I'm like, so how do you feel about this war? Because I call the War of Northern aggression. Oh, man. There's going to be computers and you're going to feed them information every day. by talking to them and they're going to talk back.

Sorry. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. I get it. Two quick hitters or one may spark further conversation. We'll see. But have you ever had, so you get on an airplane,

and I know I'm talking about overhead bins again. Apparently it's very, you and overhead bins. Topic near and dear to my heart. Oh, HB, Jeff. And so you put, you know, generally your bag is like in the bin that's, over your seat or like across the aisle just depending on whatever right but it's like you put your bin that you there have you ever had your bag moved uh have like without you knowing it uh without me knowing it no oh well dude that happened to me and it threw me for a loop

i would move forward or backwards it moved like seven rows backwards ah you screwed Yeah, it's so upset. Well, good I- If I was forward, you're golden. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So immediately I'm like, already kind of loopy or like out of it because like we did, we were doing like 24-hour ops during our field ops. So like not a lot of sleep occurring.

Let's get on the plane, like sleep most of that flight. And then like get up, like look at my bag. Bin is empty. Turn around. Bin is empty. And I'm like, somebody took my bag? So I like, walk down the office. like the

because of course immediately like no one is like offered everyone's like get out of my way like I need I need to leave and I'm like all right I get that plus the Marine Corps booked your ticket so I assume you're in like 32c yeah yeah so so go up like talk to one of the flight attendants I'm like hey I don't know if me grab my bag whatever like oh just wait and so I wait a little bit and like start but then I like start to like

work my way back of course nobody like everyone is just full board down the aisle trying to like navigate that. And then eventually like, look, and I'm like, is that my bag? And it's like seven rows back. And I'm like, eventually get to it. I'm like, here it is.

I'm like, why would, why would they do that? They know this is exactly what's going to happen. Like, come on. I was very fresh. Dude, that dude, that's extreme. You have, you actually have pretty bad luck with that. I think. Christians, Christians don't believe in life.

so you have bad blessings. Hmm. Oh. It sounds worse, honestly. Honestly, yeah. It does sound worse. Yeah. Maybe Christians don't believe in reverse luck.

I don't know. I checked my bags in the way back. I don't know that there was any better. I've been flying six hours to Jersey. And I will be honest, I buy the economy plus seats. The government gives me. I have $150 to get there and back, which is not near enough. Wow.

And I'm just like, yeah, I'm just like, I'm just going to take the loss. And so I pay like, it's like usually a $90 upgrade each way. So on the way back, I had cleaned out my office. You know, I had like stuff in my office. And so I was checking like three or four bags. And so I even checked like my roly bag. So I just checked my roller bag. So I had a backpack and a jacket.

Nice. And I get in the plane, I'm always hot. So I throw my backpack and my jacket up in the top. top, planes full, of course. And they're like, sir, it's his yours. And I'm like, yeah. And they're like, can you put that under the seat in front of you? And I'm like, no. And she's like, sir, I was like, I didn't bring my roly bag. I checked my bag. I got to the airport because I heard that TSA was a nightmare. I literally have a backpack and a jacket and it's not coming down. And I was like, super aggressive and the lady just like,

okay, I'm just going to leave the bag right here. And I said, yeah, you are. And then she came back later. It was like, do you want anything? I was like, I'm also sorry. I was super aggressive. I just, I didn't bring my rolly bag. She's like, no, I totally get it. You rate. I assumed you also had another bag. I was like, nope, didn't have another bag.

You had no problems flying, right? Jeff, we got to cover this TSA. Jeff, uh, Jordy, make the title like, TSA nightmare. Marines can't travel with war impending in Iran. That needs to be the title. Okay? And if not,

just put a dunk in across the screen right now. Yeah. Literally. Everyone, every boomer I know was messaging me. Oh my gosh. Better get to the airport early. And I'm like,

on my way out of Jersey, I go to this pizza spot every time. I'm going to go on my way out. And say bye to everyone because I'm not coming. back. I went, I got to the airport, an hour and 15 minutes before my flight. I checked three bags and got through security in 10 minutes. And I literally landed in California and on the news in the airport in Orange County was nightmare at EWR. And I was like, just flew out of there. I mean, it's been six hours, but. Yeah, no, no issue. Didn't seem to be any difference in the

operation in Salt Lake City. And then absolutely no line whatsoever at John Wayne. So like smooth, easy. Auburn. Auburn. Yeah, dear. So my mom canceled a vacation because she goes out, the TSA is going to be terrible. Well, I was like flying to and from El Paso.

And she's like, what's the TSA? Ben? I'm like, no, what's going on? I canceled social. I like canceled the social. I haven't been on social media and like forever. And then like I don't have to watch the news. So I actually think you're allowed to be on social media.

I actually think the difference is you have to leave your house. You have to go places. You have to do things. It's like people, people just, yeah. Oh, man. Did you hear about Houston Airport? No. Haven't had any desire to go to Houston.

Why would I know anything about the Houston airport? It's always sucked. Yeah. That's why they call it Galveston. but yeah so all right my team

when I went to El Paso it was like I was probably quigger than usual yeah I don't think it was not bad dang saved rounds

alibi last one last thing when you heard that Chuck or do you think Chuck Norris actually passed away or do you think

it's all just a joke no I ran I think he's with Tupac Elvis and Jeffrey Epstein.

There we go. I'm just kidding. What a crew. I don't want to put that on Chuck Norris. Yeah, I was sad. But that was when we're like, no,

everyone was like, you're lying. That's not real. And then like, oh. So that happened on deployment. At some point during deployment, it was like you're at sea for weeks and you land.

And then everyone's writing in the chat. Chuck Norris is dead. And then like you do a little bit digging. It's like, this is actually two weeks old. And everyone said he's alive. Yeah, Chuck Norris, RIP. I will tell you this, and Trey will appreciate this,

in Texas and South Carolina and South Dakota. We just call them hats. But I, there was not a lot of shows I was allowed to watch growing up. I think I can list all, I think I can list all five of them. Andy Griffith show, Bonanza, the Three Stooges, David Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, and Walker, Texas, Redneck, as we called it in our house. We called it Walker, Texas Redneck. I know it's Ranger.

So he made the list, and there were sometimes my dad would make us turn it off. He'd like, it's a little much. In the eyes of a Ranger, the unsuspected stranger. I did like all the Marine post of like, walk, not Walker Tech Ranger. Chuck Norse didn't apply to be a Marine. The Marines applied for Chuck Norse. Great guy. Great, great faith story.

Great faith story. Has a good, I think in the 70s. So about decade ago, has a good bit of, had a hole in my life, in my heart, my entire life. And then I found Jesus Christ and the holes finally filled.

that's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's cool. Yeah. No, that was crazy. Crazy past. Probably guarding the streets of gold with a Marshall's bag or a Texas Ranger badge or whatever it is they were in Texas. Hopefully he's not doing an Aggie yell.

I don't think that's allowed in heaven. No. No, I don't think so. Yeah. I guess, safe for, on the twins turn two. Hey. They did or they're going to? No, they did.

I feel like I should know that. I think I do know that. Yeah. Yeah, there's pictures and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I knew that. Yeah, you know it. Yeah. Yeah, Twins turn two, man. So went by quick. Yeah.

That's what they say. Terrible. I don't know. I've told the podcast you guys know, we're expecting September 6th. If there's a podcast listener out there that hasn't picked that up from the socials. That's what everyone tells me. Everyone I respect. Everyone I respect that has grown kids, they go.

It goes like that. And they always snap their fingers. Boom. And I always try to remember that when I'm like finishing stuff, something up at work. I'm trying to say a little bit longer. I'm like, you know what? I can do this night after she's in bed.

I'm going home. It's what everybody says. Talking to an old church member of my dad. I don't think he listens to the podcast. Maybe this will get him to listen. I was talking to an old church member of my dad's day, Marine. Don't know what he got out as.

I just know that he came through my dad's church because something in Beaufort. His name is Gary Ladbury. He's bought every String coat T-shirt possible. And he's got to be in his 60s, I'd guess, had a health scare maybe two years ago. I recovered now doing fine. big dude, probably like 6, 4, 6, 5.

I remember him from being like 5 years old. And I was in the gym today, yesterday, and we have some clothing inventory in the gym that's not an inventory in the site. And he had been trying to buy our long-sleeve t-shirt. We have a cool long-sleeve t-shirt. It comes two colors, lake blue and vintage gray. It's heavy, oversized cotton, six and a half ounces.

Think a Carhart T-shirt. And the long-sleeve t-shirt, his drink on the front has her quality manufacturing placard on the back and he had wanted to buy a 2xel version of that and i saw his name i know his name was like a childhood name my dad's buddy gary ladbury and uh so i emailed him because he had emailed before and i said hey i actually found a 2xl in the gym uh if you want to let me know he called left a voicemail um and during that time so i'm going to come into the gym and said, oh, I left my shirt here and walked out with it. And so it wasn't for sale, didn't have it.

And so to make up for it, I just shot him a text message, went into his customer profile, grabbed his number, showed him a text message, and just sent him a photo of my daughter. And I was like, sorry, I don't have any shirts. And he just sent me a nice message of, you know, thanks for sharing a photo. And it goes by like that. He didn't snap, but I know that he did in his mind. And he was like, enjoy it. You know, I'm at the point of my life where my kids.

kids are my friends, which is also awesome. But I miss all the sounds they make. So all those young dads out there, enjoy the socks, shoes, outside, cats. And, you know, just enjoy it why you can't. All right. Let me hit the sponsors one more time. B-DW-Tex, B-DX, LLC.com. I'll leave it at that.

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And he's not, I don't think he's that busy. So, yeah, give him a call, right? Yeah, of course. What he's always said. B-dubs. Never not said that. Hey, it's always just as Chow's continuous. Football season's also always continuous.

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I don't know. That's five people. Five people. Dude, fine with me? If you would have a hold a gun to my head and say how many people were watching, that's five more than I would have picked. One.

Yeah, I would have thought like two. Two, has it been your number? Yeah, one would be me making sure the feed was up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the other one would be PJ making sure I'm not ruining the recording.

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